REST

REST (Representational State Transfer) is one of the most widely adopted architectural styles for designing networked applications. Whether you’re preparing for a technical interview or looking to improve your API design skills, understanding REST API principles is essential. In this post, we’ll break down the core concepts of REST, discuss its fundamental constraints, provide practical examples, and summarize the overall ideas to reinforce your learning. What is REST? ...

Building Your First REST API with FastAPI: A Step-by-Step Guide FastAPI is a modern, fast (high-performance) web framework for building APIs with Python 3.7+ based on standard Python type hints. It’s incredibly easy to learn and use, and boasts automatic interactive API documentation (Swagger UI) and data validation. This guide will walk you through building a simple REST API with FastAPI, demonstrating its key features. What We’ll Build We’ll create a simple API that manages a list of “items.” It will have endpoints for: ...